About a week ago I popped into the Reading Audi garage to book an appointment to get my Audi looked at as I had been having problems with the back window. I booked it in for Tuesday (today) and my expectation was for them to pick up the car from work, do the work and drop it back off at work. As well...

One of the things I really love about what we do a Microsoft is that sometimes we like to 'break the rules', not in the sense that we do something we shouldn't, more that we do things that should have been done a long time ago. One of the more recent examples of this is Shadowrun, a game that you can...

Now that our Unified Communications technology is coming of age, there seem to be a number of communities popping up in relation to our technologies, this is great to see!. I met with Nathan Winters of MMMUG the other day at a Quest event and I just noticed they are planning to have their April meeting...

One of the problems with most telephony systems is that small business don't want to spend their time configuring and repatching phones when someone moves from desk to desk. They have enough to worry about without having to become PBX technicians as well. To that end, a small team in Redmond has been...

Today I noticed that Steve Clayton has changed his Display Name for Windows Live Messenger, it now includes an unusual looking icon so I thought I might do some more investigation to figure out what is was all about. The Windows Live Messenger team have set up a scheme whereby you simply add a small...

Well not quite but it got you wondering didn't it ? Hot of the heels of Exchange 2007 is the Microsoft Transporter for Lotus Domino. This comes in a 32bit and a 64bit flavor, depending on your preference and in the words of the Exchange product team the " Microsoft Transporter for Lotus Domino configures...

I spotted this on someone's blog today and wanted to share this with you :-) It appears that in order to communicate with a new younger generation of kids, Santa has had a meeting with the Windows Live Messenger guys at Microsoft and has signed up for Windows Live Messenger. As you can see, I had a quick...

I was reading the MS Exchange team blog and came across this interesting Microsoft site that I wasnt aware existed. Have you ever thought 'why does the x feature in Word work like that?' or 'why can get make Exchange do x?' then its well worth spending a few minutes taking a look at the Usability Research...

Earlier this week we ran an internal event at Microsoft in UK to celebrate the launch of Exchange 2007, Windows Vista and Office 2007. We were joined by the 'Bobby Dazzler' himself .... David Dickinson! The theme was family fortunes and of course included the big screen, two rows of mics where the families...

Thought that might get your attention! Recently I went to visit the inlaws in Norfolk and you can only begin to imagine how disconnected I felt as their house had neither a mobile signal nor broadband :-(. Given that I have wireless internet access at work, home, my parents and my friends in Canterbury...

Hot of the heels of my post yesterday, I am pleased to say that I received an email today to celebrate the fact that Windows Vista has RTM' d! This is great news and this is what the press is saying already about Vista already The long wait for Microsoft’s next operating system, Windows Vista...

I joined the company five years ago in 2001 and a month later they launched Windows XP. I remember this being a big event both in the news as well as within Microsoft. A number of years have gone by since then and with the launch of Vista, Office and Exchange all at the same time, some are saying its...

local.live.com has now gone 3D and as you can see on the left hand side, its a pretty good start. When I initially heard about this, I thought it would be pretty limited in its use as not all of the UK will be mapped in 3D, but it acutally makes 2D map easier to navigate for those that are a little...

Recently I found myself in the strange position of actually having fully released software on my machine. This is quite an odd experience for me as I am currently running Vista and Office 2007, connecting to an Exchange 2007 mailbox ... none of which are released code :-). Luckily, it looks like I don...

Back in February, I started writing to this blog as my role was changing slightly within Microsoft. Since then I have worked with lots of great partners and in particular have worked within a team of extremely talented people who have the tough job of getting their message out to tens of thousands of...

If you are not subscribed to the RSS feed for PTS-TV you not have realised that we have released another three videos on to PTS-TV . We have also changed the ordering so all new videos are at the top ! Exchange 2007 featuring me :-) Information Worker from Steve Marsh Vista by Mark Dixon...

Yes ... that's right ... another great episode of PTS-TV! This episode features a PTS by the name of Chris Parkes, a sterling chap, talking to Katie about business intelligence. As per, pop along to the PTS-TV site and take a look !

On Monday we announced the availability of Windows Live Messenger. I highly recommend you go ahead and download it straight away from here but if you want a quick summary of what it includes then here is a list Call both PCs and phones from within Windows Live Messenger, linked into Verizon service...

As many of you know, Steve Marsh and I are doing the London to Brighton Bike ride this Sunday to raise money for the British Heart Foundation. If you have already sponsored me then many thanks and feel free to track our progress by clicking here . If you have not yet sponsored me then go to http://www...

I realise this might seem like a bit of odd post but I think its worth doing so here goes, let the comments begin :-) With the recent news that Bill Gates is looking to change his role within the company in 2008 and a following on from chat with a friend, it got me thinking about my life before Microsoft...

Yes, that's right, we have released another video onto the website featuring the familiar face of Dave Sayers and our new budding interviewer ... Andy Clark. In this video, Andy and Dave discuss virtualisation while looking like they had just met each other in a bar :-) ... although it's the XBOX...

Since I last made a posting about PTS-TV, we have added a further 2 videos to the site . We have also added an RSS feed so that you can subscribe to PTS-TV and know the minute a new video is available! Pop along to PTS-TV and watch the videos (one with demos and the other without) of Dave Overton...

Windows Vista up until now has only been available to those with a Technet or MSDN subscription. This has now changed and anyone can download the beta from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/default.mspx or get it sent to them in the post. If you want to take a look at Vista, and I recommend...

Something a little different from the normal stuff I talk about but defiantly worth a read. When you have a free moment take a few minutes to read this article which highlights the reasons why XPS and Save as PDF is being pulled from Office 2007 and some of our efforts to try and keep at least some...

Not long after the release of Dave Sayers video on Security, we now have Christian Bolton talking to us about SQL and Business Intelligence. If you have ever wondered what exactly Business Intelligence is or have purchased SQL Server and are wondering what else you could do with it then pop along to...